clove

noun

/kləʊv/

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[countable, uncountable] the dried flower of a tropical tree, used in cooking as a spice, especially in sweet foods. Cloves look like small nails.丁香（热带树木的干花，形似小钉子，用于烹饪调味，尤用作甜食的香料）Topics Foodc2, Plants and treesc2
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[countable] a garlic clove | a clove of garlic one of the small separate sections of a bulb (= the round underground part) of garlic蒜瓣
- Use one crushed clove of garlic.使用一瓣压碎的大蒜。

Word Originsense 1 Middle English: from Old French clou de girofle, literally ‘nail of gillyflower’ (from its shape), gillyflower being originally the name of the spice and later applied to the similarly scented pink. sense 2 Old English clufu, of Germanic origin, corresponding to the first element of German Knoblauch (altered from Old High German klovolouh), and the base of cleave ‘to split something in two’.

clove

verb

/kləʊv/

past tense of cleave
Word Originsense 1 Middle English: from Old French clou de girofle, literally ‘nail of gillyflower’ (from its shape), gillyflower being originally the name of the spice and later applied to the similarly scented pink. sense 2 Old English clufu, of Germanic origin, corresponding to the first element of German Knoblauch (altered from Old High German klovolouh), and the base of cleave ‘to split something in two’.

单词	clove
释义	clove noun /kləʊv/ /kləʊv/ enlarge image [countable, uncountable] the dried flower of a tropical tree, used in cooking as a spice, especially in sweet foods. Cloves look like small nails.丁香（热带树木的干花，形似小钉子，用于烹饪调味，尤用作甜食的香料）Topics Foodc2, Plants and treesc2 enlarge image [countable] a garlic clove \| a clove of garlic one of the small separate sections of a bulb (= the round underground part) of garlic蒜瓣 Use one crushed clove of garlic.使用一瓣压碎的大蒜。 Word Originsense 1 Middle English: from Old French clou de girofle, literally ‘nail of gillyflower’ (from its shape), gillyflower being originally the name of the spice and later applied to the similarly scented pink. sense 2 Old English clufu, of Germanic origin, corresponding to the first element of German Knoblauch (altered from Old High German klovolouh), and the base of cleave ‘to split something in two’. clove verb /kləʊv/ /kləʊv/ past tense of cleave Word Originsense 1 Middle English: from Old French clou de girofle, literally ‘nail of gillyflower’ (from its shape), gillyflower being originally the name of the spice and later applied to the similarly scented pink. sense 2 Old English clufu, of Germanic origin, corresponding to the first element of German Knoblauch (altered from Old High German klovolouh), and the base of cleave ‘to split something in two’.
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